Raid against “Reichsbürger”: Topping training in Idyll in Upper Franconia

It is tranquil at the 528 meter high Oschenberg, near the village of Bindlach near Bayreuth. The shooting track, a former institution of the Bundeswehr, was in the middle of the green, was not only a meeting point for sports and leisure shooters. There, so -called imperial citizens from the group around Heinrich XIII. Prince Reuß specifically trained for an attempt to cope in the Berlin Reichstag building.

Three more have now been arrested in a raid in the federal states of Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria, and the arrest warrant should still be on Thursday. Furthermore, three supporters who are at large are determined against three supporters.

Arrest from special forces

Special forces from the police arrested the three people who are part of the group around Reuss. They would be suspected of being members of a terrorist association and have set themselves the goal of violently eliminating the state order, said the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) and the Munich General Prosecutor’s Office.

Accordingly, searched in Bavaria in the Forchheim and Nuremberg Land districts, in Saxony in the Erzgebirgskreis and Chemnitz as well as in Thuringia in the district of Eichsfeld.

“Today’s arrests in the area of the Reich Citizens’ Group show again: Our democracy is massively threatened by extremists and increasingly active terrorist groups from various ideological camps. The police prevented worse-that deserves the greatest recognition,” said the chairman of the police union (GdP), Jochen Kopelke.

Like other alleged supporters of the group in April 2022, the three arrested men are said to have participated in training with short-term and long weapons on the shooting range in Upper Franconia.

Investigations against a total of six suspects

According to current knowledge, the investigators assume that the exercises should serve to prepare a possible attack on the German Bundestag. A total of five men and a woman aged 40 to 61 are therefore investigated. Arrest warrants had already been issued against the three arrested men before the search.

According to LKA, objects that are subject to the weapons law were ensured during the searches – but also ensured data carriers, which must now be evaluated on evidence.

Until a final conviction, the presumption of innocence applies to the suspects. According to LKA, around 300 police officers were deployed during the campaign in the morning.

Three major terrorist processes are currently underway against the “Reichsbürger” group Reuss. The group was known after an anti-terrorist raid at the end of 2022.

The accused are said to have planned a violent overthrow of the federal government and consciously accepted the dead. As head of a new form of government, Heinrich XIII. Prince Reuss should act. Former AfD member of the Bundestag Birgit Malsack Winkemann is also one of the accused.